October 17, 2008

Fennec Alpha 1

Fennec alpha 1 is here! If you have a Nokia N810, please install it and try it out! If you don't, though, you can also install Fennec on your Windows, OS X or Linux desktop.

The release notes give a good overview of what's new and how to get started with Fennec. Jay and Mark have posts about it, too.

As I mentioned in my last post, Fennec's user-experience is really coming together — it still needs tweaking and tuning, but you can get a real sense of how Fennec dedicates screen space to web-content and minimizes the need for typing. If you want to get a sense of how it works, before you install it yourself, I've recorded a quick video walkthrough: